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>>5680204does this one makes it any better?>USA>Japan>France>UK>99% of Russia(because everyone LOVED tsar and wanted to be a serf)>against bunch of shitholes which are just parts of Russia like Siberia which declared itself independent or anarchist movement in Ukraine which fought everyone including themselves >these shitholes aren't controlled and just fight on their own>white army STILL manages to lose

Unironicly its because communist are 10x more motivated then anti-communist forces

>Communist: We are fighting to bring about economic equality along with self-governance from colonial powers/corrupt aristocrats>anti-communist: we are fighting because we don't like dem evil reds or our colonial overlords told us to

TO BE FAIR, if the White Russians had won, they would have only won the first of many civil wars.Because they did not share a platform at all besides hated of communists. Russian Civil War might have lasted for the rest of the 20th century if the communists had lost.

>>5680902>NASA is getting btfo by a PayPal nerdMarket fundamentalist politicians defunded NASA and forced it to work with corrupt MIC. Then SpaceX found a way to get in on that delicious tax payer money contracts. If NASA were in control of their destiny Musk wouldn't be anything.

>>5678151Ussher Chronology, Bischop Ussher added up the different dates given for the ages and Birthdates of the Patriarchs and the ammount of years officially given between key events in the 1600s.

In Genesis there is a list of the initial 10 or so Patriarchs for instance and how old they were when their sons were born, so you just add all those dates up.

It is not perfectly consistent, there is contradiction for instance in the following verses

Galatians 3:15-17 - The period from the calling of Abraham to the introduction of the Law (First year of the Exodus) was 430 years Acts 7:6-7 - The Israelites were enslaved and ill-treated (in Egypt) for 400 years Genesis 15:13 - The Israelites were enslaved and ill-treated for 400 years Exodus 12:40 - The Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years

If the enslavement was literally 400 years, then both Abraham and Isaac would still have been alive by the time the enslavement began if all 4 verses are true simultaneously, fundamentalists get around this with some bullshit reinterpretation where "enslavement" and "living in Egypt for 430 years" get reinterpreted as "soujouring around".

1 Kings 6:1 Says that the time from the start of the Exodus to the building of Solomon's Temple was 480 years.

So: 480 (Time from building of Temple to Beginning of Exodus/Giving of the Law, 1 Kings 6:1) + 430 (Time from beginning of Exodus/Giving of the Law to calling of Abraham) + 75 (Age Abraham was when he was called, Genesis 12:4) + 1948 (Years from the birth of Adam to the birth of Abram, derived from info in Genesis 5,11 and 12) = 2933

The Temple of Solomon, if it existed, would have been built between 1000-950BC, so 975+2933= Beginning of Creation around 3908 BC

You'll notice that I'm off by about 100 years, if you want to know why you'll have to go through the Bible and Bischop Ussher's reasoning yourself, cause I don't know either, despite trying to go through the bible and replicate his chronology myself.

>>5680835>>Were the Cossacks comparable to American frontiersmen, as a “live frontier,” or were they more of an auxiliary force that could be called upon by Russia in war when required?a bit of both. they used to secure the southern border area near the crimean turks/poles/caucaus spergs. they were sorta used as an auxiliary force, but their military use was severely curtailed as time went on. by the 1800s they were much more used for recon or raiding or internal security. not really regular forces that could be relied upon or go toe-to-toe with real military forces.>>>Did they establish something of a “mythic” status over time, like knights and/or samurai?yes, a sort of romantic "freedom". serfs used to just run away from their masters to the cossaks in the south, not much their masters could do. as time went on and cossak numbers swelled, the cossaks were less and less welcoming. plus the russian state grew to encompass them by the late 1600s.>>>was their repatriation into Soviet Russia after WWII essentially intended to be a series of executions?yeah pretty much. soviets were already big on decossakization before the war, that was just an extension of it.

>>5680835>Were the Cossacks comparable to American frontiersmen, as a “live frontier,” or were they more of an auxiliary force that could be called upon by Russia in war when required?Yea, they played major role in colonizing Siberia, as Russian Tsars wanted to get rid of them.

>Did they establish something of a “mythic” status over time, like knights and/or samurai?Are you American or something? "Knights" or "samurai" don't have a mythical status. Back to your question though: Their aesthetics were certainly deemed worthy of emulation. There were litarary works romantisizing their way of life and Ukrainian national identity (inb4 Polish memers) is loosely based on Cossacks. Russian army also heavily uses Cossack themes.

>was their repatriation into Soviet Russia after WWII essentially intended to be a series of executions?Note that you are talking only about a minority of Cossacks, which "betrayed their motherland". That was a grave crime which warranted death or even genocide in the case of Crimean Tatars.

>>5680786And the reason behind that is probably because Catholics traditionally live within a strong police state whereas the Protestants lived in freer small communities.So Catholics learned to mind their on business, because you don't snitch on your neighbours and you don't want them to snitch on you. And Protestants learned to report everything to their Pastor and assemble into a mob to lynch all outsiders. When you think about their behaviour, Protestantism is just a more primitive social behaviour, so instead of being more progressive, they reverted back a 1000 years to more savage times.

>>5679878It's easier to control a population that is concentrated in or around one big city like Constantinople than having to control a decentrelized territory spreaded in 3 continents, each with it own centre. Also in 1850 Ottomans lost most of it's ''cultural and intellectual'' balkan territories. They never really cared about the anatolia and the middle east.

I need some recommendations for books on Southeast Asian theatre of WW2. Particularly what was going on in Burma during Japanese occupation.It is a topic that I've become interested in as of late, and want to expand my knowledge of it. What are the best sources of information for this chapter of the war?

>>5680794i actually wrote a paper on the japanese occupation of burma during ww2 a few years ago. pic related was pretty helpful desu. some of the combat stuff can be a bit hard to follow at points, the war in burma was quite different than other theatres.